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As a teacher, this is my solution to all the pronoun angst. Just use proper names, especially those chosen by the students. No one is (yet) objecting ...

Brandom likes to talk about taking true and making true, belief and action.

Oh I think we do.

I appreciate the consistency.

I think that's a common enough preference. But should that personal preference trump the professor's right to express their view of the world (which i...

I'm skeptical about such blockers myself, but that's beside the point. In general I sympathize with that principle. Let's test it. Imagine a progressi...

Thanks! Me too. And you are helping. I need to read some Eco. Indeed. Dawkins might add that it's not a stable strategy. https://www.litcharts.com/lit...

We're not so evil that we don't still need excuses.

. I am somewhat sympathetic to your concerns. As I see it, influential people are successfully changing the meaning --the 'proper' use -- of some basi...

Another theme provided by Brandom (attributed to Kant) is the primacy of the propositional. The semantic atom is the judgment. Why? Because this is th...

Another good theme. The norm/ideal of rationality is not our only concern. It may be a detour the, invention of some darker need (such as to replicate...

This might be truish but seems like 'bachelors are unmarried men.' There's also the problematic issue of 'private knowledge' (Cartesian baggage). I su...

I'm with you in spirit, but perhaps we dream up those essences and only later learn to check if they or their implications are compatible with observa...

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That's a nice issue to bring up. The fallacious version seems to point at practical consequences, so that an inconvenient truth is no less true for al...

Good issue. For some it seems to suggest something too much like religion or superstition (insufficiently rational). Others may see it as a stuffy fat...

A critique of 'logocentrism' (a term invented by Ludwig Klages) initially suggests that Derrida was a hippy. Mikic's Who Was Jaque Derrida emphasizes ...

That sounds right. If nature were more chaotic, we might still have a rich 'science of formal systems,' but this would probably have little interest o...

Nice. Instead of the cave, we have the sunken ship. One analogy is used to dissolve another.

I like thinking of W's 'grammar' in terms of norms (as featured in Robert Brandom's work). The tacitly 'proper' way to use words, among those who are ...

We might also say that he gave us new problems to think about.

Hope this isn't too much of a tangent, but this reminds me of something I read in Brandom recently. (If anyone has studied his work, it'd be fun to di...

Good point.

Design the face and body to millimeter precision. Skin texture, internal temperature, audio could be controlled by AI monitoring user response.

Or make it liquid, to save having to chew.

A spout that shoots out all the clean hot water you want into a container convenient for soaking a human body in, with little bricks of white slime th...